Lessons from the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit vote

[Swede]

Here are some things that happened on the night the GOP pushed the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit through the House of Representatives:

A 15-minute vote was scheduled, and at the end of 15 minutes, the Democrats had won. The Republican leadership froze the clock for three hours while they desperately whipped defectors. This had never been done before. The closest was a 15-minute extension in 1987 that then-congressman Dick Cheney called “the most arrogant, heavy-handed abuse of power I’ve ever seen in the 10 years that I’ve been here.”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/lessons_from_the_medicare_pres.html

[Winterblues]

1. Democrats do not learn lessons so stop saying that...

:shrug: